Michael Morgan and the Oakland Symphony continue their popular “Playlist” series this week with a very special guest. “Sí Se Puede: Dolores Huerta’s Playlist” features Huerta — the iconic activist, community organizer, civil rights champion and co-founder (with Cesar Chavez) of the United Farm Workers of America — joining Morgan, the orchestra and a slate of guest artists to introduce some of the music that’s inspired her life and work.

The program includes “Novus,” a work by Bay Area rock legend Carlos Santana, featuring William Moses as vocal soloist. Santana was a producer of “Dolores,” the award-winning 2017 documentary celebrating Huerta’s life.

Huerta will talk about how she became a self-described jazz fan; she and Morgan will introduce works by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Classical favorites are also included, with pianist Taylor Eigsti joining Morgan and the orchestra in Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and Omid Zoufonoun conducting the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra in Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.”

Additional guests include Adam Theis’ Jazz Mafia, flamenco dancer Briseyda Zárate,and vocalists Solas Lalgee and Tiffany Austin; the evening ends with an audience sing-along of Harry Dixon Loes’ “This Little Light of Mine” — an apt choice for Huerta, who has been a shining light for workers for nearly a century.

Longtime Los Gatos resident and San Jose State employee Theodore Erskine “Ted” Gehrke died Feb. 23 after a brief illness. Gehrke was born in Portland, Ore. on April 1, 1939 to Leonard and Eugenia (Taylor) Gehrke. He married Elizabeth Turner in 1967 and soon moved to the Bay Area. In 1972 he became San Jose State University’s Student Union Program...